The First World War for Oil 1914-1918: Similarities with the 2014 Oil Wars 100 Later
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This booklet explains why oil was the real cause of the First World War, and explains the economic and geopolitical interests behind all the major players of this war.
Moreover it compares the first Great War for oil in 1914 with the oil wars of 2014 in Syria and Iraq one hundred years later.
Iakovos Alhadeff
I have studied economics to postgraduate level. I never worked as an economist though. I worked in the field of charter accountancyand I completed the relevant professional exams (the Greek equivalent of the English A.C.A.). My essays are written for the general reader with no economic or accounting knowledge, and the emphasis is on intuition. All my documents are extremely pro market and quite anti-socialist in nature. I admire economists from the Chicago and the Austrian School i.e. Milton Friedman, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich Hayek, Henry Hazlitt, Murray Rothbard. I am Greek and English is not my first language, so I hope you will excuse potential errors in my syntax.
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The First World War for Oil 1914-1918 - Iakovos Alhadeff
The First World For Oil 1914
Similarities with the 2014 Oil Wars 100 Years Later
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Table of Contents
Introduction
The British and German Empires
The Triple Alliance Between England, France and Russia
The Role of the Balkan Countries in WWI
Arab Nationalism
The Oil Factor in the First World War
The Second World War for Oil 1939-1945
Similarities of WWI with the Oil Wars of 2014
The Famous Phrase ‘History is Repeating Itself’
Introduction
With this essay I want to provide a summary of why oil was the main cause of the First World War (1914-1918), which could be also called the First World War for oil, and also compare this oil war with the oil wars of 2014 one hundred years later. The main alliances of WW1 were England, France and Russia on one side, known as the ‘allies’, and Germany, Austro-Hungary and Italy on the other side, known as the central powers
. See the following, very rough, map.
The British and German Empires
At the beginning of the 20th century (1900) England was what the U.S.A. is today. England was an empire extending from Canada and East Africa, to India and Australia, covering most of the globe as you can see on the following rough map (green colour).
However after her victory against France in 1871, Germany established itself as one of the